11. End Of Her

I pushed the feeling of sleepiness off of me and stood up. Edward moved so he was in front of me and took a protective stance and growled. Not the playful growl I had heard just a few minutes ago, he had let loose a feral snarl that had me backing away.

“Edward, darling, I don’t want to hurt you. Move aside, it’s the bitch behind you that I want to hurt.” Lya snarled back.

“Not a chance, Lya. Get out of the house now, and don’t come back and maybe my family won’t have to hurt you.” Edward growled; a pained and angered look on his face. I knew he didn’t want to hurt her, but he would if he had to.

“Sorry, Edward. That’s not going to happen. You know my power; I don’t calm down or back down till the person I am angry at is dead. And the person I hate as of now; is the not so angelic vampire cowering behind you.”

“Edward, move.” I said, trying to push him out of the way. He didn’t move an inch. “Edward, move.” I said, trying to push him out of the way again, but he still didn’t move.

“Eddiekins, you should do what she tells you to or she might make the house go up in a tornado.” Lya said.

Another feral snarl ripped through Edward’s chest. “You are not getting anywhere near her.”

I turned Edward around to face me and I was met with pitch black eyes, darker, if possible, than the day I met him at Forks High.

“Edward, this is my battle. Let me fight it.” I said. I could still feel the exhaustion that I pushed off.

His stubborn brain would not give up. “No. You are not fighting alone.”

“I will fight alone.” I growled right back at him.

I stepped around him and faced Lya. A sinister smile crept up onto her lips as she stared back at me with her evil, taunting black eyes.

I ran out the door, knowing that she was right on my tail. I ran till I was in the field next to the house and I stopped at the end of the field, where it meets the trees. Lya stopped about five yards away from me.

“Let’s see, the terms of this fight.” Lya thought for a moment, tapping her chin with her index finger.

“We will fight to the death.” She said. “No rules.”

I nodded my head and before I could blink, Lya had pushed a force field towards me and I was knocked back into a tree.

“Umph.” I moaned.

“Like I said,” Lya snarled, advancing upon me, “no rules.”

I got up lightning fast and struck with all my might at her stone hard body and sent her flying. She landed on her butt twenty feet away.

“Like you said no rules. Right?” I said, a mocking grin spreading across my face.

Before she could get fully up, I sent a bolt of lightning down at her and she shrieked and flew back another twenty feet.

I saw her get up and I could tell that this fight was not going to be two female vampires anymore; this was going to be a full fledged fight where who ever won, that one would be alive. The other would be smoking in a pile of ashes.

I ran at her and started ripping every part of her I could reach with my claws. I slashed her stomach and her chest, making her throw her head back in a scream.

Right then, I felt another force field hit me and knock me back through two trees. I groaned and tried to get up and failed.

I lifted my head to see Lya walking towards me, an evil glint in her black eyes. I fought off the pain and stood up.

I growled at her and charged once more. My teeth snapped at her neck and my claws dug at every part of her body.

She screamed a high pitched scream once again. I kept ripping at her with my claws and teeth until I could tell she wasn’t fighting back anymore.

I fell back, looking down at what I had done. Lya laid there on the ground, blood all around her, slash marks everywhere, you couldn’t even tell it was her.

I kneeled down on the ground, putting my face in my hands. I had just killed someone. I didn’t care who it was, I killed someone.

I felt a cold hand on my back. “Bella, sweetie.” I felt Edward pick me up in his arms and take me towards his house.

I smelled smoke when we entered his house. Alice had set the body on fire to make sure she didn’t come back.

Edward laid me down on the bed, putting my head in his lap. He pulled his hands through my hair.

I felt a pressure on my stomach and I opened my eyes to see Carlisle pulling away the torn fragments of the bottom of my old shirt. He put gauze on the wounds to stop the bleeding, pressing down on them.

“These should heal soon.” Carlisle said and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.

“Let’s get you changed.” He said.

Edward stood up, putting my head on a pillow. He walked into his closet and came out with one of his button up shirts.

He sat me up, took the rest of my shirt over my head and helped me slip the soft cotton of his white shirt on.

“Thank you.” I whispered.

“You should get some sleep. You told me that you slept once every month for a couple days. You seemed like you were going to fall asleep before.” He whispered.

I nodded and on instinct, I yawned. He chuckled and slipped in behind me, lying down and he wrapped his arm around my waist from behind, lightly.

My eyes started to close, but I saw the door open and Aidan standing there. I pushed the tiredness off for the second time and sat up.

“Bella!” Aidan yelled, running over to the couch. “What did you do to her?” He asked, looking up at Edward angrily.

“It wasn’t his fault.” I said. “I killed Lya and I got hurt in the process.” I said, my eyes fighting to close.

“You killed Lya?” He whispered.

I nodded tiredly.

“She’s tired, she needs to sleep.” Edward said sternly. “You can ask her what happened after she wakes up. Please get out of my room.” Edward growled.

Aidan growled back and exited the bedroom.

“Go to sleep, my Angel.” Edward whispered in my ear and he started to hum my lullaby.

That was the last thing I remember before I slipped into unconsciousness.